Doctor Manhattan is very different from other superheroes.
This is mainly because he appeared in the Watchmen by the genius Alan Moore and never again, like his compadres.
He is Moore’s depiction of a God. He is the very embodiment of superintelligence.
His powers are limited mainly by his own will, but that is a major catch. He is largely apathetic towards humans and life, in general.
I often abstain from answering “who would win in a fight between X & Y superhero”, “who is the strongest…?”, etc., but this question is a little different.
And in my knowledge, Manhattan is a literary character and not technically a superhero. I don’t compare anything in Moore’s Watchmen with other comics because it acts on a different level. It is truly a literary graphic novel with complicated, realistic, but fictionalized characters.
Manhattan is very much a superhero inside the graphic novel (this is a little meta!) but he is very different from the Batman, or Superman, or other superheroes.
Personally, I consider Manhattan as much of a superhero as Heracles or Achilles or Indra or other literary characters who often fulfill the ideals of a “hero”.
If forced to compete with other ‘superheroes’ from other sagas, Manhattan has his apathy as a huge disadvantage. He needs to convince himself that the fight is worth the fighting, and this usually takes a lot of metaphysical and existential battles inside his own head (or heads?).
That being said, if all fields are leveled, he could literally kill any other superhero with a snap of his fingers.
Such is the complicated character of Manhattan!
Alan Moore has really created a masterpiece here.
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